How do neural processes give rise to cognition? Simultaneously predicting brain and behavior with a dynamic model of visual working memory.

ABSTRACT: There is consensus that activation within distributed functional brain networks underlies human thought. The impact of this consensus is limited, however, by a gap that exists between data-driven correlational analyses that specify where functional brain activity is localized using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and neural process accounts that specify how neural activity unfolds through time to give rise to behavior. Here, we show how an integrative cognitive neuroscience approach may bridge this gap. In an exemplary study of visual working memory, we use multilevel Bayesian statistics to demonstrate that a neural dynamic model simultaneously explains behavioral data and predicts localized patterns of brain activity, outperforming standard analytic approaches to fMRI. The m

SUBMITTER: Buss AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11327926 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature